When I worked for a local teachers' union there was an issue over a parent contacting us every day because her daughter's teacher kept calling her daughter by her personal nickname for her. The girl's name... ImUnique.

I. Shit. You. Not.

The teacher was calling her Neeky, and the mother was demanding that's HER name for her. Gave your kid a sentence for a name...

Do you do newspaper puzzles like the Daily Jumble, crosswords, or Sudoko?

I used to watch a lot of children's cartoons here and there, but now I'm discovering that most of them these days are just awful. I do dig the new Spectacular Spider-man show, though.

But for embarrassing to me? I guess I do watch a few shows geared toward third graders and younger (Arthur, Postcards From Buster, etc), but that's also something that several of my friends do.

I guess I just do it out of habit since I used to be BIG on the PBS shows when I was younger: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, Ghostwriter, Bill Nye the Science Guy, then other shows as they came along: The Magic School Bus (I LOVED the books when I was a kid), Wishbone, The Puzzle Place, Arthur, etc.

Seems like even PBS' kids shows have been dumbed down for even younger kids. Ugh, Sid the Science Kid.

Anyway...

What are 5 things you like that you don't like to admit to people you first meet?

Have to pick one or you'll be shot:
a) Running around in circles chanting "I'm a fairy princess" while wearing a princess/fairy hybrid costume, in the middle of a busy park, on a Sunday afternoon, for six hours every week forever, or...
b) Being contracted to kill someone in a busy public area, without the ability to obscure your personality or be allowed to escape afterward.